Weissmann: It’s Fair For Journalists To Ask If Feds Will Seize Ballots In Blue Cities Based On Allegations Of Fraud
Andrew Weissmann, former top official at the Justice Department, discussed Trump’s continued threats to nationalize elections on MS NOW:
ANDREW WEISSMANN, MS NOW LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, FORMER FBI GENERAL COUNSEL: So, you know, when I was saying look forward, I want to make clear that’s just not my speculating about what concerns me. The Wall Street Journal last week when this happened talked about that Tulsi Gabbard would be anticipated to issue a report that there would be executive orders that could come from that. I think a really fair question for journalists to be putting to Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general, is something I am concerned about, is whether they will simply go in and try to seize ballots in either blue states or blue cities on a claim of this is evidence that they need for allegations of fraud. Will they try and tamper with elections? Will they enforce the criminal statute that says that it’s illegal to send in armed forces to surround an election? We rarely have had to deal with that statute because fortunately in this country that’s not been a possibility. But now we are seeing that being floated by the president and his allies. And I think those are really important questions for the attorney general and deputy attorney general to answer. And if they don’t answer it, it tells us that these kinds of concerns that are being raised not just here, but also the Wall Street Journal. So think of that, MS NOW and the Wall Street Journal focusing on the same issue because of what we’re seeing going on and the comments being made by this administration.
